Resume: Paul Spina
Contact: Esther Trepal
646-831-1613
paulspinaART@gmail.com
Born: Brooklyn, New York, 1937
Died: Cleveland, Ohio, 2017
Education
BFA Pratt Institute, 1960, New York City
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (scholarship), 1960, 1962
Fine Art
Gallery Representation/Shows
New York, New York
- Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1959
- Corridor Gallery, 1970s
- 10 Downtown, 1970
- Jerry Joseph Gallery, 1970s
- Hinkley and Brohel Gallery, 1960s-70s
- Ken Hansen Gallery, 1970s-80s
- Asage Gallery, 1980s
- Fashion Institute of Technology, Faculty Show, 1997
Cleveland, Ohio
- The Art Gallery (Willoughby), 2016 to current; group shows 2017, 2018, 2019; retrospective October 2018
- ArtiCle (Waterloo), retrospective, September 2018
- Something Different, 2016 to current
- Lissauer Gallery, The Image as Poem: Works on Paper, September-November 2019
Other
- Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Annual Art Exhibition: 1966, 1968, 1969
- Eyes Gallery, Philadelphia, 1980s-1990s
- Taraba Illustration Art (2017 to present)
- Canton Museum of Art, POP/OP, December 2021-April 2022
Collections
- Museum of Modern Art – New York Whose Side are You On?
- MIT List Visual Art Center
- Society of Illustrators, New York
- Canton Museum of Art
- Washington University of St. Louis, Dowd Modern Graphic History Library
- Private Collections
Professional (New York City)
- General Illustrator, freelance (1960s-1990s). Editorial and fine art drawings for commercial and literary magazines. Book cover art and illustration of books (both adult and juvenile).
- New York Magazine (Design Director: Milton Glaser) (https://books.google.com/books?id=_8jXFukv7HsC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA92&dq=artist+paul+spina&source=bl&ots=5zborL0VvC&sig=Y23oZA-pYA8yYn4WXspun5X9hD8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi7tpme39rQAhWGRSYKHVyFAPcQ6AEIUDAG#v=onepage&q=artist%20paul%20spina&f=false)
- The New York Times
- National Review
- Cue
- New Engineer
- Science Digest
- New York Sunday News
- NY Daily News
- Medical Directions
- Essence
- The Soho Weekly News
- Liberation News Service
- Doubleday
- Harper and Row
- Author/illustrator of children’s books (Harper and Row) (1970s)
- Adjunct Faculty, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, General Illustration (1967-1970)
- Adjunct Faculty, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY, General Illustration (1974 – 2010)
Awards
Citation for Merit for client The New York Times, Society of Illustrators, 1971
Articles
• The Art of Paul Spina (published in American Art Review Spring 2024)
• Paul Spina: A Lifetime in Art, Can Journal, 7(3), Fall 2018
• The Art Gallery of Willoughby Presents Paul Spina Retrospective, Can Journal, 7,(2), Summer 2018